caa a22 4500 475768612 CHVBK 20180406123613.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005511129475 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005511129475 Taxonomic Revision of Mouse Lemurs (Microcebus) in the Western Portions of Madagascar [Elektronische Daten] [Rodin Rasolooarison, Steven Goodman, Jörg Ganzhorn] The genus Microcebus (mouse lemurs) are the smallest extant primates. Until recently, they were considered to comprise two different species: Microcebus murinus, confined largely to dry forests on the western portion of Madagascar, and M. rufus, occurring in humid forest formations of eastern Madagascar. Specimens and recent field observations document rufous individuals in the west. However, the current taxonomy is entangled due to a lack of comparative material to quantify intrapopulation and intraspecific morphological variation. On the basis of recently collected specimens of Microcebus from 12 localities in portions of western Madagascar, from Ankarana in the north to Beza Mahafaly in the south, we present a revision using external, cranial, and dental characters. We recognize seven species of Microcebus from western Madagascar. We name and describe 3 spp., resurrect a previously synonymized species, and amend diagnoses for Microcebus murinus (J. F. Miller, 1777), M. myoxinus Peters, 1852, and M. ravelobensis Zimmermann et al., 1998. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 mouse lemurs nationallicence Microcebus nationallicence taxonomy nationallicence revision nationallicence new species nationallicence Rasolooarison Rodin Département de Paléontologie et d'Anthropologie Biologique, Université d'Antananarivo (101), B.P. 906, Madagascar aut Goodman Steven Field Museum of Natural History, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, 60605, Chicago, Illinois, USA aut Ganzhorn Jörg Deutsches Primantenzentrum, Kellnerweg 4, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany aut International Journal of Primatology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/6(2000-12-01), 963-1019 0164-0291 21:6<963 2000 21 10764 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005511129475 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005511129475 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rasolooarison Rodin Département de Paléontologie et d'Anthropologie Biologique, Université d'Antananarivo (101), B.P. 906, Madagascar aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Goodman Steven Field Museum of Natural History, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, 60605, Chicago, Illinois, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ganzhorn Jörg Deutsches Primantenzentrum, Kellnerweg 4, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Primatology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/6(2000-12-01), 963-1019 0164-0291 21:6<963 2000 21 10764 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer